Shoe-upper



(No Model.)

- C. A. BONNEY.

- SHOE UPPER.

No.-465,236. Patented Dec 15, 1891.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. BONNEY, OF NET/V BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE-UPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 465,236, dated December15,1891.

Application filed December 2,1890. Serial No. 373,282. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

- Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BONNEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Bedford,in the county of Bristol and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoes, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of shoes, and more particularlyto that class of IO shoes termed Congress, and it consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of parts hereinafter particularlydescribed, and defined in the claim, reference being made to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a top view of the vamp, quarters, and front top of a shoeembodying my 4 invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same aftercrimping andpreparatory to its connec-- 2 tion with the rear top andelastic gores.v Fig. 3 is a side view' of one of the rear tops. Fig. 4.is a side view of one of the elastic gores.

Fig. 5 is a side view of a Congress shoe constructed according to myinvention.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a; designates the rounded frontvamp portion, 1) the quarters, and c the front top, which said parts areformed of a single piece of leather. This single piece of leather hastwo straight o diverging cuts 0 0, made therein at equal distances fromits central line and extending forward from the vrearof the blank.Continuous of such straight diverging cuts are the curved cuts n n. Thepiece of leather thus described is crimped to give it the proper shape,as illustrated by Fig. 2 of the drawings, and the central portion 0,formed by the straight diverging cuts 0 0 and the cuts n n,

forms the front top of the shoe, thus avoiding a seam across the instepand enabling a saving of leather. n n in the quarters b b the point t'of the elastic gore e extends below the line of the heel and instep, andby its contracting power atfords a more neat fit about the top of thequarters and the instep and facilitates greatly the putting on andtaking 01f of the shoe.

The letters dd represent the blanks for the rear top of the shoeshortened, as shown in the drawings, and formed with straighttopportions, concave front and rear edges, and convex bottom edge toadapt them, in connection with the hereinbefore-described front top,rounded front vamp portion, and quar ters, to form a neat andperfect-fitting shoe, as illustrated by Fig. 5 of the drawings.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is I The leather-blank for a Congress gaiterherein described, comprising the blank 0., with the rounded front vampportion, the two quarters b, and front top a, formed of a single pieceof leather and having the two straight diverging cuts 0 0 and the curvedcuts n n continuous of the straight cuts and extending from the rear ofthe blank, and two similar blanks d for the rear top of the shoeshortened, as described, and formedwith straight top por-' tions,concave front and rear edges, and con- .40 By reason of the curved cutsvexbottom edge, all substantially as set forth.

CHARLES A. BONNEY.

WVitnesses:

JAMES C. HITCH, HENRY W. MAsoN.

